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Ranked feels like such a coinflip

JustSaiyan69·6/20/2018, 11:20:51 AM·7 votes·3,951 views

Look I know you've seen this a hundred times, and I'm a low elo bronze scrub but seriously every single game it feels like a coin flip between either retarded team mates or really good ones. It makes me feel like such shit knowing half the time a play ranked I'm rarely the deciding factor of games, or even laning phase.

I know I'm not that good, but seriously check these last few ranked games, alot of my losses happen because my team mate would pick the most retarded match up ever automatically losing lane(like picking Pyke into an Alistar support) , or just be flat out bad.

This most recent game my laner Draven had gotten 2 kills pre 7 minutes, due to my jgler dying in an invade and Pyke deciding to Leeroy Jenkins into a horribly bad fight. Top lane isnt doing so hot either already 0/2, later going on to 0/8 end game, my jgler is pissed off about his first death, and we have a Morg vs Viegar lane which I already knew was gonna turn out bad.

After awhile I fucked up, got killed under tower and wasn't that bummed until I saw Draven walk back to lane with a BF sword and pick axe first back. At that point I decided there was no reason to keep trying at all, I've already lost game at fucking 9 MINUTES. Vlad was stacking up fucking kills, my jgler is tilted out of his mind, Pyke still thinks engaging relentlessly like a meat head is the key to winning, Morg has died and is getting tilted from all of us doing shit, I mean this game felt so entirely out of my hands after my first death.

I know my /ff mentality made me do worse and feed more but even if I had just held out and played safe Draven would be ahead of me all game, Irelia would still be fed as shit, my Pyke would still be virtually worthless because I cant make other players better, jgler would be behind and morgana would ultimately only be useful for her snare.

How in the shit am I supposed to climb when games like this can happen at the flip of a coin. Sometimes it isnt even the entire team all equally doing ass but ONE player that fucks it all up by feeding someone and making them snowball out of control.

And when I'm on the opposite side of it its literally a complete and utter stomp the entire way through the game. I know I probably am a factor into the losses and have shit macro skills but jesus christ most are just the cause of really REALLY bad team mates.

13 Comments

Lucian Waifu6/20/2018, 9:48:49 PM2 votes

You play a snowball champ, like pantheon, ahri, zed, leblanc, those types of champions and don't leave it up to a coinflip by winning so hard early.

remakoro6/20/2018, 4:48:55 PM1 votes

I'm a low elo bronze scrub

You could have just stop there. I could guess this much from the title and you confirmed my suspicions in the first line of your post. Which is actually very nice of you.

So... Yea thats you problem.

I'm a low elo bronze scrub

This is exactly why it feels like coinflip to you. Cuz thats exactly what it is.

Ifneth6/21/2018, 4:35:41 AM1 votes

That means you’re right where you belong: you’re not carrying when placed higher or feeding when placed lower.

The right response is to take a step back, a deep breath, and remember why you’re playing in the first place. It should not the wins or rank but the competition and the desire to improve. Without that mentality, you’ll focus on whether you won a particular match or not and tilt because you can’t think “I could have carried” and “My team was heavy” at once. It’s a contradiction and will drive you nuts.

You’ll never climb until you can keep your focus on yourself and regard individual wins or losses as, well, wins or losses at a computer game played by people in their free time on the Internet. You happen to want to get better at the game because you’re competitive.

Stop listening to the people who say “It’s your fault. You can carry.” You are not a smurf or someone who just walked in with amazing skill. You’re an ordinary person, and you can get a little bit better every day if you practice. So, no, it’s not your fault when you lose. Just remember that it’s not entirely to your credit if you win, either, though.

What you should feel good about is doing something that you haven’t done before, like a new strategy, build, champion, or outplay. That’s growth as a player and will serve you well later. Feel especially good at learning the fundamentals, like wave manipulation, back timing, or Baron calls, since they will help more. You should feel bad about making a mistake that you should have known better than to make. Diving a full health Annie, for example.

If you can stay focused on improving your play from game to game, then you will gradually do it. You really will. And then you’ll carry a game here or there, or survive a tough matchup occasionally, and notice your rank start to rise. It’ll get harder, but keep it up. If this weren’t hard, then we wouldn’t be doing it!

RookPusher6/21/2018, 5:02:31 PM1 votes

What I would say to you, having looked at your match history, is that your death count is high. If that happened infrequently, I'd say maybe there was a peel issue. But given that it appears to me to be consistent, what I would say is, give yourself a limit of deaths (e.g. No more than 3 this game).

Secondly, sit and think about what a death is. It's not a failed attempt at a kill, it's an enemies kill. They gain strength whenever you're dying. And given than you ADC a lot, that's probably a kill and an assist. I would make dying less an absolute top priority. Because until you can limit that, or explain to yourself that they matter way more than you're currently believing they do, then it is a coin flip decided by each dive you make.

I support often and the number of ADCs I see who think the glory of the kill is the greatest pursuit is maddening. The hardest thing is being bored. But if you want to climb - be bored. Farm, play safe, hang back.